How is it that motorsports are still allowed?

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

Aircraft electronics are also pathetically behind the curve. I don't have to turn my phone off every time I get into a car for fear of the whole thing going up in flames.

Neither will the airplane, but no-one is willing to sign the dotted line beneath the approval of their use ...
Airplanes have to take far more V/m from radar installations than your puny phone can pump out.
Can't use you iPad on take-off and landing ?
Fat chance the blokes up front have their departure and arrival charts on their airline-provided iPads ...
The USAF just bought some 18 thousand of them.
They'll replace one hell of a lot of paper.

Same in hospitals.
You'll see the doctors running about with cellphones.
Have you ever seen somebody with a pacemaker die because he sat in front of you on the train, the bus, or just walked by you ?

[BackroadBomber]

Didn't fuel injection start in the 50s/60s in drag racing? Or atleast it became more popular.

[Frank Lee]

google is your friend

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by euromodder

...Airplanes have to take far more V/m from radar installations than your puny phone can pump out.

...difference between outside high-power radar/radios and inside cell-phone/game-devices is the aircrafts' skin acting as a "Faraday" screen: (1) it shields the inside of the body from outside radiations, but likewise (2) it contains the inside radiations inside the body.

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by BackroadBomber

Didn't fuel injection start in the 50s/60s in drag racing?

Hitler's Messerschmitts had FI by 1940 ...
Carbureted Spitfires would cut out when being unloaded.

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...difference between outside high-power radar/radios and inside cell-phone/game-devices is the aircrafts' skin acting as a "Faraday" screen: (1) it shields the inside of the body from outside radiations, but likewise (2) it contains the inside radiations inside the body.

So the UA flight 93 calls are fake ?

The windows are too big to keep cellphone signals in. Or out.

[RunningStrong]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

Aircraft electronics are also pathetically behind the curve. I don't have to turn my phone off every time I get into a car for fear of the whole thing going up in flames.

Not quite true. There's some evidence in the recent past of cars cutting out due to poorly protected ECUs being exposed to signals from mobile phone masts and military instillations.

Also, if you've ever listened to the radio and heard a morse-code like sound from the radio it's most likely because a phone has gone off in the studio. This has also happened at parties, usually where phones have been placed on top of cheap speakers.

Originally Posted by Honest John FAQs

BBC News Announcement 10-11-06

The Ministry of Defence has admitted that a fault at an RAF radar dome was responsible for causing electrical problems with dozens of cars.

Engines and lights cut out and speedometer dials swung up to 150mph as motorists drove past the dome.

At the time the MoD said there was no guarantee that the Trimingham radar on the north Norfolk coast was the cause.

It now says it will consider claims for compensation after an inquiry found the radar was "out of alignment".

An MoD spokeswoman said the inquiry revealed the Type 93 radar spinning inside the dome had been out of alignment between November 2005 and February 2006.

The spokeswoman said that there was no danger to the public or personnel but the MoD would now consider outstanding compensation claims on a case-by-case basis.

[NachtRitter]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

One thing I can think of for sure that racing developed and general automotive adopted is the rear view mirror. Other than that, not so much.

That made me think of the following:

Originally Posted by Franco

And now my friend, the first-a rule of Italian driving.
[Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and throws it out of the car]
What's-a behind me is not important.

[Thymeclock]

Originally Posted by mechman600

It just seems funny. The media pushes energy conservation and pollution control to the nth degree, yet nobody seems to say much about motorsports. Seems a bit contradictory.

Not that I mind. I love my F1 and MotoGP. I just think it's funny, that's all.

So is there an implication that they shouldn't be allowed?

It's remarkable that whenever the economy turns sour people turn to proposing bans and prohibitions, advancing a sentiment that "a thing like that shouldn't be allowed!"

Welcome to the incubator of authoritarianism.

[ecofreak]

Originally Posted by Thymeclock

Welcome to the incubator of authoritarianism.

So if there is widespread popular dismay of something, and the government responds... Are we mistaking democracy for something else here?

Sure, the economy has made everyone uneasy. The largest benefit it had is in the strengthening and reaffirmation of our civil culture. Democracy is going to be here for years to come. (not to worry )

To motorsport: Without it, we wouldn't have half the efficiency and safety we have now. Think of how more beneficial it is to a racing team if their vehicle can protect their driver and also contain anything, be it bearings, lubricant, or a spoiler that will give itself a few extra joules saved from heat or a few square inches of ground contact or...